A slow night. And a bunch of B.S. from the weatherman.

Last night there was supposed to be some wicked storms rolling thru. Never happened. We thought the fishing was going to be red hot. That never happened either. Seems that the fish knew the weather wasn't going to change that much (ie. no storms) so they never really got too worked up. But Ken and I pressed on for 2 hours while hiking the rocks for over a mile, casting, casting, casting, changing baits, casting, casting, changing baits, casting...you get the idea.
Ken was able to get on a pretty good sunfish pattern and got a bunch of the really big (1/2-1lb) sunfish on a 4" Senko/1/8oz Slider Head Jig combo. He got bit off once by something he had no chance against I hooked into 5 fish total. 2 of which I never landed..one of those was an absolute monster...probably something with teeth. Possibly the same fish that took Ken for a ride. Of the 5 fish I hooked 4 hit a Charlie Megabait. The monster I lost charged a Lunker City Salad Spoon.

All the hooked fish were within 2' of the shoreline in water 2' or less with rock/rubble and weeds.

Here's the last fish of the evening just before we called it a night.

23". Not bad. Now we're shottin' for 24"

So there ya have it. Find an hour before dark. Find a shoreline with some rocks. Throw a topwater or a subsurface bait like the Megabait...and possibly get the biggest smallmouth bass of your life. It's just that easy.

On another note; As you have read many times we fish in some pretty unconventional areas. The following pictures are fish that have been caught out of a ditch. Yes...a ditch. Depth is 1-3' deep. The ditch is no wider than 20'. The ditches we fish are waterways that lead from one lake or pond or river to another. No one would even THINK of fishing them. They look like crap. They are mud bottomed and other than the occasional carp you might see, there's nothing visible that says "fish here!". BUT..they connect waterways...and that's the key. The fish HAVE to use them. They have no choice. When the shad run the bass HAVE to follow, even if it's in a mud bottom ditch that runs under a road.
Ditch fish. Enjoy.